Ebenezer Scrooge is a miserly old skinflint. He hates everyone, especially children.
But at Christmas three ghosts come to visit him, scare him into mending his ways, and he finds, as he celebrates with Bob Cratchit, Tiny Tim and their family, that geniality brings its own reward.
This finest of all Christmas stories is beautifully illustrated with Arthur Rackham’s superb line drawings.
This is Book 2 in the Wordsworth Children's Classics Series. See all Wordsworth Children's Classics books here.
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Charles Dickens has to be one of Britain’s most important authors. Dickens’ books are full of intrigue, twists and turns but it is the vivid characters that make them so enduringly popular. Characters that are grotesque, endearing, sinister and comic and include some of the best-known literary figures: Fagin and Oliver Twist, Miss Havisham and Ebenezer Scroo
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